Which colleges have the "gunners" in their pre-med classes?

curmudgeon
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:38:23 +0000

Hmmmm. From the responses, maybe my definition was too strict. Maybe there are three levels of “gunners” being discussed.

1) the “saboteurs”
2) the obnoxious argue about every point, answer every question, always thinking about the next step, “pests”
3) the “curve-busters” who are going beyond the norm every time while staying social, cooperative, and friendly but are still kicking your :eek:

My kid would have never been described as type 1, may have some folks who thought she drifted over to type 2 at times, and most certainly was type 3 at her school. (She’s the kid in class who always did the extra work even if she already had a solid A. That tends to tick people off. ;))

I’d like to think all the other kids liked her, but …that would be a little hard to believe. lol. In high school I know for a fact that was certainly NOT the case.